What an absolute joke.
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Herkyalert
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That was pretty bad but Iowa should have won the game no matter where it was at. Terrible second half for the Iowa women.
imported_ankle23
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Iowa up by 5 with 13 minutes left. I get a phone call and come back to the game with Zag up by 6 with about 5 to go. What happened????
ICAlumni
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They did play on a natural court - it was made of actual wood... from trees!
burky247
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That....was.....awesome!
seepig
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Bluder lacks the game changing athletes she needs. She missed out on Stokes which was too bad because she would have made Iowa instantly better next season. The Printy gal is the best player on the team. Even she fired up several ill advised shots today which is uncharacteristic. We couldn't get a stop when we needed one today either.
bandgrocks
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The sites for 2011 were selected in 2009, what do you want the NCAA to do, send Gonzaga somewhere else? People seem to forget the year the women went to the Final Four, they played the regional semifinal and final in Iowa City.
You don't win games when you let two players from Gonzaga light you up for 34 and 30 points. Bluder failed to make any defensive adjustment on either player. Also, the complete lack of coaching the final two possessions was obvious, since we acted like we had no clue.
tm3308
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Gonzaga got the hot hand. Standish I think didn't miss a shot in the 2nd half (maybe one), and scored 22 points in the half (you do the math).
I'm not sure that we'd have "found a way to lose". Standish shoots 57.1% from the floor at home. She shoots 56% on the road (Keep in mind that their road schedule was not too challenging). And on neutral sites, she shoots 49.3%. The home court advantage probably has something to do with that (and the overall lack of competition).
Against teams that finished in the top half of a Power 6 conference, she shot just 34.9% (Stanford at home, ND on a neutral floor, USC on the road). Now we're not Stanford, not even close. And Gonzaga is still an excellent team. But Standish's FG% does appear to be impacted either by the home floor or poor competition.
tm3308
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No. But the low seed shouldn't be getting home court. Why not wait until after the selection, and give play that 4-team pod at UCLA? That's not fair either, but at least the top seeds can actually get the benefit of being the better seeds.
bandgrocks
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They used to do it that way, then they decided to try the POD system like the men's tourney, with one caveat - if your school was hosting a POD, you got to play at home. The problem, nobody showed up to the games when their team wasn't playing. So, you had empty arenas, which didn't make any $$$$$. Look at the year Iowa played in Denver, 3700 people in a 19000 seat arena looked really bad on TV.
So, the NCAA went back to the sub-regional format with four teams playing at a site, because they want fannies in the stands. The only difference when they went back to the sub-regional format was they started awarding sites two years out instead of the top seed in the sub-regional automatically hosting, so the schools hosting could ensure their venue was available. If you recall, in 2002 Iowa was the # 4 seed and supposed to host, but CHA was already booked, so they ended up going to Utah to play. This is why they did the two years in advance, so schools could make sure their arena was open.
Plain and simple, Gonzaga put a bid in and won to host first/second round games, and because the women's committee allows host schools to play on their home floor in the first/second round. If Iowa continues to use this as an excuse, we look like sore losers.
We had a seven point lead, everything going in our favor and fell apart. We let two players light us up, and made no defensive adjustments to make one of the other three players beat us.
